GUINEA WORM
December 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) claims it is near to making guinea-worm disease the first parasitic illness to be eradicated globally. Only 35,000 sufferers remain in west Africa, the Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda. The worm grows inside the abdomen and emerges through painful blisters on lower limbs.
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) claims it is near to making guinea-worm disease the first parasitic illness to be eradicated globally. Only 35,000 sufferers remain in west Africa, the Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda. The worm grows inside the abdomen and emerges through painful blisters on lower limbs.
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